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- 1COO- EntrapmentIsabella shall not escape me
- 2COO- Importance of religion-what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return
-Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man. - 3Setting -COO-The walls of the castle were thrown down
-labyrinth - 4COO- Sins of the past/AncestorsThe portrait of his grandfather uttered a deep sigh
- 5COO- Supernatural- Allusion to James 2 and the fact that he could not respond to the invading threat of William of Orange as and he had serious nosebleeds. This meant the bloodline of England was directed to the protestants.drops of blood fell from the nose of Alfonso's statue
Groom - 'It is a reminder of the constitutional settlement of protestantism in England' - 6COO- Ambition- This leads to the deaths of innocent people (women). This passion dissolves once he kills Matilda and he transforms into a monk. In the end reason triumphs over passion.The circumstances of his fortune had given asperity to his temper
- 7WH - DoppelgängerI am H.C.
- 8WH - RevengeTreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Guilt and psychological torture is worse than the physical damage the other would do.
Revenge can also be linked to the monster and the fact that we still feel sympathy for him after he mistreats those around him. Hindley mistreats him and thus corrupts him. - 9Dracula- Rationality vs irrationalityif it explain not it says there is nothing to explain at all
- 10Dracula - Power of the past- voices fear of victorian era who feared that the rejection of centuries old beliefs would come back to haunt them.The old centuries had powers of their own which modernity cannot kill
- 11Dracula - Women as the root of evil - harks back to renaissance portrays of women as the root of evil such as in paradise lost and shakespeare.They are devils of the pit
- 12Dracula - Women as sacrificial victimsLucy is saved by Holmwood - 'blood she must have or die'
- 13Ancient Mariner - Entrapment - SublimeA frightful fiend doth close behind him tread
- 14The tell tale heart - AmbitionIt is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
- 15The tell tale heart - Hubris - Link to 'she knew she was nobodies meat' however, she actually triumphs and his own guilt consumes him and exposes him. Carter shows that reason wins whereas poe says that we cannot be rational as emotion overthrows it.I smiled,—for what had I to fear?
- 16William GodwinGod himself has no right to be a tyrant
- 17Mary Wollstonecraft - Womenthey become prey to their prejudices, then blindly submit to authority
- 18Mary Wollstonecraft- Maternal care - Mary seems to disagree by demonstrating the importance of having an authority figure.Obeying a parent only on a count of being a print prepares the mind for slavish submission
- 19Byron - Darkness - YWS - Shows that people were believing that the possible was possibleI had a dream which was not a dream at all
- 20COO- Marriage/patriarchyits better to have a bad husband than no husband at all
- 21Tell tale heart - Reminder of the pastsound of the beating heart
- 22Faustus and Mephistopheles share actors - 'If you conjure a demon to some extent that demon is going to represent a side of yourself'RSC - Aberg
- 23All humans are naturally good, society imposes evilRosseau
- 24The gothic has much to offer readers who find themselves at odds with the normHalperin
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